US News Best Hospitals

The rankings, published annually by U.S. News & World Report for the past 26 years, recognize hospitals that excel at treating the most challenging patients. Recognized hospitals met a standard of performance nearly as demanding in one or more specialties.

In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals that perform nearly at the level of their nationally ranked peers in one or more specialties, as well as hospitals that excel in multiple common procedures and conditions.

Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, adequacy of nurse staffing and other data largely determined the rankings in most specialties.

Common Care Ratings

Methodist Hospitals are rated as high performing in more common care areas than any other hospital in the area.

Colon Cancer Surgery

COPD

Heart Failure

Heart Bypass Surgery

Hip Replacement

Knee Replacement

About the Common Care Rankings

U.S. News evaluated over 4,500 hospitals nationwide on common inpatient procedures and conditions that account for millions of hospitalizations each year. Objective outcome measures such as deaths, infections, readmissions, and operations that need to be repeated as well as patient satisfaction data largely determined the ratings. The Best Hospitals for Common Care ratings rely on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data for patients 65 and older, as well as survey data from the American Hospital Association and clinical registry data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.